Honors
Awards
- Bruce Medal in 1938;
- Franklin Medal in 1939;
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1940;
- Legion of Merit for outstanding contribution to ballistics research in 1946.
Named after him
- Asteroid 2069 Hubble;
- The crater Hubble on the Moon;
- Orbiting Hubble Space Telescope;
- Edwin P. Hubble Planetarium, located in the Edward R. Murrow High School, Brooklyn, NY.;
- Edwin Hubble Highway, the stretch of Interstate 44 passing through his birthplace of Marshfield, Missouri;
- Hall of Famous Missourians 2003;
- 2008 "American Scientists" US stamp series, $0.41.
- The Edwin P. Hubble Medal of Initiative is awarded annually by the city of Marshfield, Missouri — Hubble's birthplace.
- Hubble Middle School in Wheaton, Illinois, was renamed for Edwin Hubble when Wheaton Central High School was converted to a middle school in the fall of 1992.
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